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Thankfully, these days poker players have more options than ever. In decades past, poker players were restricted to just a few cities nationwide. Today, there are hundreds of card rooms from coast to coast that spread low, mid, and high-stakes games …

German poker pro Niklas Heinecker was last year's biggest winner online, capturing a staggering $6.2 million on Full Tilt Poker, according to HighstakesDB data. Combine that with his more than $4 million in tournament earnings in 2013 ($4,546,619 to be …

Get a jump on the festivities and schmooze with the chefs of Cornyation, aka The Court of Kitchen Queens and Front of the House Divas, at The King and Queen Anchovy Poker Run, 1-5 p.m. Saturday at The Monterey, 1127 S. St. Mary's St. Check in is …

"These guys are the best, but don't tell them that," said Jones before adding that "a combination of their talent, composure and respect for the game that they play for a living is what makes them great people to speak to about poker. They're not the …

It never ceases to amaze how closely the world of the entrepreneur and the world of the poker player are intertwined. And, really, why should it come as a surprise? The qualities to succeed in one — determination, resourcefulness, creativity, a grasp …

As one of the rooms with longest presence in the online community, Bwin has made the move from the Ongame to the Party Network, and in the process it inherited the improved Party software together with a big player pool. The software is available as a …

Party Poker has certainly come a long way in regards to their software. In the past it was quite hard to use and users experienced frequent crashes, but the new software is much more user-friendly and solid overall, with easy to navigate lobbies for …

Do you ever get that feeling that you know exactly what you should do in a hand? Call it intuition or whatever else you want. I call it "trusting your gut," and few things are as important in poker. Trusting anything is a tough thing to do in a game …

The slow process of reuniting US-based customers of Full Tilt Poker with their bankrolls took an incremental step forward today. According to the Garden City Group, the company responsible for administering FTP remissions, a second round of payments …

This Sunday, Card Player Bovada players and new depositors are eligible to play in an exclusive Black Diamond Poker Open freeroll. The tournament, which starts at 3:35 p.m. EST on April 6, will award the top six players at least a $20+$2 tournament …

Reputable poker sites have invested in tight security measures, rivaling the sophisticated encryption used by financial institutions for online banking. But the onus lies on players to ensure their computers are protected from malicious types out to …

Despite the game being called Texas hold'em, and a Congressman from Texas (Rep. Joe Barton) with an online poker bill sitting in the U.S. House, Lone Star State Gov. Rick Perry has basically come out in support of a federal ban on Internet gaming, The …

The longest running tournament in Europe and the second longest running tournament in the world, behind only the World Series of Poker, the Irish Open will crown its newest champion April 18-21 in Dublin, Ireland. There are two years unaccounted for in …

Give us your opinion in the comments section below for your chance at winning a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription. Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they'll come up with dozens of different opinions. That's …

Now, the city is getting ready for yet another chance to become part of the poker history as the live tournament frenzy will return in the Las Vegas of Asia with two major Asia Pacific Poker Tour stops in 2014. The first stop – the APPT8 Macau will …

British online poker pro Alex “IReadYrSoul” Millar is up around $4.5 million lifetime playing the nosebleed stakes on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, which makes him one of the biggest winners in history. The 28-year-old started off playing $0.25-$0.50 …

On Monday, the first event of the current Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown came to a close with the conclusion of Event 1: $1 Million Guaranteed $560 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold'em. With 1,966 entries in the field, the tournament was no doubt a massive …

Can you remember the first time you walked into a poker room? The first time you ever sat down in a cash game or a tournament? Can you remember how intimidated you were? How nervous the entire experience was? What it felt like to sit down with that …